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Avoid downtime during your data center migration

When migrating your cPanel shared hosting account between data centers, it's helpful to avoid unnecessary downtime. To make sure this doesn't happen to you, we have some suggestions.

Check your domain's TTL values

Your domain's TTL values determine how frequently your DNS records get updated. Lower values mean your DNS gets updated more quickly — which means if you make changes to where your website or email are hosted, they take effect more quickly.

If your domain name's DNS records have a high TTL value, it can cause your site to go down for an extended period of time during your data center migration.

To make sure this doesn't happen to you, check your domain name's TTL values with your domain name registrar (the company where you registered the domain name).